[Redirecting to ghc-bugs] | > I'm not sure if the GC hack proposed by Wadler¹ that lets the garbage | > collector replace "fst (a,b)" with "a" (and similar for other unchecked | > selectors) counts as optimistic evaluation, but I wonder what the | > status of this is. GHC doesn't seem to do it, and I wonder if there | > is any particular reason? Too specific? | | GHC nominally does do it (look for 'selector thunks' in the RTS and | commentary), but it doesn't work and we don't know why. | | http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/1038
That bug is alleged to be fixed. Do you think it isn't? Simon _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-bugs mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-bugs
